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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Photos of the Day: Adventures in Advertising

 Don't these all look like advertisements for cruising?

Nope. I took 'em all.
With material that Mother Nature presented, it's hard to go wrong.

Sometimes She makes me feel "this" small.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Photos of the Day: Halifax Harbor Lights

 Thursday, August 8, 2013, off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia
I feel safe and serene guided by all these little lighthouses.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Photos of the Day: Capturing Cruise Clicks

 Carnival obviously likes to hedge their bets when it comes to camera-philes and camera-phobes.
I think, by now, you know where photos of me from this cruise ended up.

BYE!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Photos of the Day: Perching Pumpkins

 Saturday, August 31, 2013
Caramoor, Katonah, NY

Nominally the last day of the summer, what to do?
Pick pumpkins, of course.

But not these beauts. They found a way to perch in the patch away from predators.
Watch out for the thorny climbing roses.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Photos of the Day: Beauty in the Details

Sinister Beauty

And can be the most wonderful word in the English language -
 if it connects two who loved, and were loved. It's all how it's framed.

When all that loved you have also passed on, Mother Nature will provide Her own floral tributes at your grave.

Thursday, August 8, 2013, Halifax, Nova Scotia